A nice thing with WSL in Windows 11 is the fact that graphical applications are supported natively without too much fuss. However, this means that, if you have a browser installed in WSL, that browser will open by default whenever you trigger a link click from your WSL installation (for example, when using lazygit’s ‘Create PR’ option).

I just ran over wslview, which is a fake browser that just triggers your default Windows browser when called. I found that most apps follow the BROWSER environment variable, so you can just place the following in your .bashrc and you’re good to go:

export BROWSER=wslview

To install wslview, you can just get it from apt-get:

sudo apt-get install wslview